Lev Navrozov

While living before his emigration in totalitarian Russia,
Lev Navrozov
did not want to contribute either to its propaganda or to its military
might, and was making a living by translating Russian classical
literature into English.

Secretly, he was an underground political thinker, concerned with the
survival of the democratic West vs. dictatorships of Russia and China,
anxious to prevent the domestic subversion of their power by establishing
world domination.

As he arrived with his family in New York in 1972, he told
The New York
Times and a
CIA senior analyst (who came with his two assistants
to speak
with Lev) that the dictatorship of Russia had been developing
post-nuclear superweapons, to be able to destroy the Western means of
retaliation in case of a Soviet nuclear attack and thus to circumvent
Mutual Assured Destruction on which the defense of the West had been
based. Neither The New York Times, nor the CIA, believed him, but
Ronald
Reagan did, met him, and publicly announced the tragic news, which the
CIA declared to be “evil empiricism”, that is, his mania. But in 1992,
after the fall of the Soviet dictatorship, Yeltsin opened to
international inspection the biological section of the pre-1991
countrywide development of post-nuclear superweapons.

As an example from the new vast uncanny world of post-nuclear
superweapons, Navrozov took
nanoweapons. He declared
K. Eric Drexler to
be the Einstein of nanotechnology. Specifically, Navrozov is comparing
Einstein’s famous warning to President Roosevelt about the viability of
atomic weapons to Drexler’s 1986 book,
Engines of Creation, where he
warns about the viability of nanoweapons. Navrozov is concerned,
however, that Drexler’s warning has been spurned and viciously ridiculed
by the
National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), an organization that
Navrozov compares to the
Manhattan Project as far as government
allocations are concerned. But as Navrozov notes, the irony in all this
is that the NNI has denied the military aspects of nanotechnology, and to
Drexler and the
Foresight Nanotech Institute he cofounded in 1986, the
U.S. Congress has been refusing to allocate a cent.

“Imagine”, says Navrozov, “the U.S. Manhattan Project policy of tacit
denial of the military importance of nuclear power, the implication being
that the Manhattan Project, with all the money allocated for it, should
concentrate on the development of nuclear power as fuel.” Disturbingly,
while the Chinese have been startlingly open about the potential military
uses of molecular assemblers, Navrozov notes that “the current
government-NNI policy completely excludes research involved in molecular
nano assemblers because of the false non-feasibility argument as put
forward by Richard Smalley [a specialist in carbon nanotubes] with
peremptory categorical zeal.” Ultimately, as the debate between Drexler
and Smalley raged, Navrozov saw no harm in assuming that Drexler is
right, for we should err on the side of caution. “Now, let us
conjecture, for the sake of argument, the opposite”, argued Navrozov,
“What would be the danger? That the West, including Dr. Smalley and his
carbon nanotubes, would be reduced to dust or would surrender
unconditionally to become a vast Hong Kong.”

Lev has been publishing his weekly columns in
NewsMax.com (over 2 million
“unique visitors” a month) and
WorldTribune.com (near 2 million of them).
Of late, he has received about 1000 emails from his readers expressing
their horror at the geostrategic situation of today and begging him to
continue his columns to wake up the West. As a journalist, author, and
columnist, Lev has been called one of the most brilliant minds in the
world by many distinguished Westerners and Russians. He has published
over 1,000 columns and articles on the destiny of civilization, world
culture, foreign policy, strategy, defense, and intelligence work since
his emigration from Russia in 1972. He is the winner of the Albert
Einstein Prize for outstanding intellectual achievements, and more than
twenty of his articles are in the
United States Congressional
Record.

His book of 1975 (Harper & Row)
The Education of Lev Navrozov: A Life
in the Closed World Once Called Russia received over 100 reviews,
comparing him to Mark Twain, Voltaire, Orwell, and Dostoyevsky. His
current book,
Out of Russia and Into the West, Blind to the Development
in China of Post-Nuclear Weapons, is awaiting a publisher who has
the
guts to publish a book so ruthlessly frank about the mortal danger of
China, in alliance with Putin’s Russia, and about the Western political
establishment, oblivious to this mortal danger.

Lev is also looking forward to the publication of a collection of his
columns on the subject.

He is president of the nonprofit Center for the Survival of Western
Democracies, Inc., and its pitch can be
emailed to whoever is interested
in the survival of the democratic West in the era of Sino-Russian
post-nuclear superweapons.